Category Archives: Health

Presently persons affected by HIV/AIDS are denied any insurance coverage and at times even withdraw existing policies. A PIL was filed against this practice of insurance company. At present, only one company out of the 24 insurance companies listed with … Continue reading →

Today what we eat is so much prone to contamination at any point of Food Chain. Often referred to as Farm to Fork, major risks in this chain could be identified as pesticide overuse, irrigation by untreated sewage water, poor … Continue reading →

A few days earlier a Post was shared on Global strategy for curbing use of tobacco products. Ban on public smoking is one major component of this strategy. In this post we share how this legal recourse is panning out … Continue reading →

Tobacco is one of the largest killers. Globally nearly 6 million people die each year from its use and exposure and could reach 8 million by 2030. WHO which is spearheading the fight against Tobacco, it has developed Framework Convention … Continue reading →

With no polio cases in more than seven months, it would be easy for India to become complacent. However, the Government of India is determined more to give a final push to ensure that polio is eradicated from India. Inching … Continue reading →

Tuberculosis has always been associated with lungs, but the rising concern nowadays is spinal tuberculosis, which affects the lives of around 1.5 lakh patients in India. The Indian Spinal Injuries Centre took an initiative to create awareness on spinal tuberculosis … Continue reading →

The Delhi Government announced ‘’Chacha Nehru Sehat Yojana’’, the most ambitious scheme to provide free healthcare facilities to all the children of the city up to the age of 14 years. With implementation of the scheme Delhi will be the … Continue reading →

India’s higher economic growth has not been able to provide a better nutritional status for the country’s adolescent’s girls, as the country houses the largest population of adolescents (243 million) almost 20 percent of the world’s adolescent population followed by … Continue reading →

India has a long way to go before it matches average life expectancy with other Asian countries. According to CIA-The World Fact book, China has the highest life expectancy at 78.32, Malaysia 74.20, Sri lanka 72.40, Indonesia 70.70, and Pakistan … Continue reading →

There has been a 6% drop in IMR (50 deaths per thousand in 2009 from 53 in 2008). While IMR has been steadily improving since 2003 in most states, there have been some states where it has marginally gone up. … Continue reading →